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Beauty kicks-starts our attention. The real sublime. To behold it is almost scary because we suddenly have a longing to stand for something. Beauty not as generic but specific, troubling in what it may call forth in us.
“Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.”
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“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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